Question

Observations about "youth gone wild" have lead to recent calls to reduce the age of responsibility to allow for younger violent criminals to be tried as adults and thus incarcerated with adults. What is the best way to determine the line for criminal responsibility? What, if any, are future effects if trying children as adults at an earlier age?

Answer 1

Children under the age of 18 tried as adults will create a larger population of young people in the prisons and they will not ,or it will be more difficult to rehabilitated them. They will be hardened at an early age since they are housed with older criminals.